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From: woerz%isaak@isaak.uucp (Dieter Woerz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Signature functionality change
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Date: 16 Jun 89 21:47:39 GMT
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In article <792@cjsa.WA.COM> jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small) writes:
>...
>I agree with this completely.   This change in the handling of signatures is
>the first modification that has been made which I don't feel I will be able
>to live with*.  Elm frequently does not give me the signature I want for a
>particular individual (I have suggested linking the signature file to the
>aliases to solve this problem) and I often edit it as I compose my message.

I would second this proposal. Make an extra field in the alias entry,
which contains the name of the signature file to be used for this
person with the option of giving no signature at all for such things
as archive servers and things like that. Perhaps this can be a
feature for a future release of elm.

> ...
> [Proposal about enlarging the functionality of the builtin editor
> deleted]
> ...

>Comments?

My comments to the given proposal are these:

I assume that most people don't use the builtin editor anyway. The
use vi, emacs or an other more comfortable editor, so that they can
edit the message with the editor they are used to.

So my proposal is:
    Why not call the editor with (the message including?) the
    signature (but no the headers?) when the user has sent the
    message and elm has made its choice for the signature? Is this
    change easy enough to incorporate for being a patch to remedy
    this no-signature-feature?

Comments?

Dieter Woerz
ISA GmbH, Azenbergstr. 35 D-7000 Stuttgart-1 W-Germany
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